ATTENTION HUMANS: Your doggo could be lying to you.

It turns out your very good boy or very good girl could be lying to you.

A new study has found that doggos can deceive humans to get what they want.

The study, which was published in Animal Cognition, was conducted by researchers from Switzerland.

In order to conduct the study, the researchers trained 27 dogs of different ages (doggos, puppers and big ole’ woofers) to detect the difference between someone who allowed them to have their favourite treat (the cooperative partner) and someone who wouldn’t (the competitive partner).

LISTEN: Sorry to all the parents of fur babies, but they’re just animals. The Mamamia Out Loud team discuss. Post continues.

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During the study the dogs would lead the hoomans to three different boxes: one that would contain sausages – their favourite treat; one that contained biscuits; and one that was empty.

The cooperative partner would give them whatever was in the box and the competitive partner would keep the treats for themselves.

The researchers found the dogs would lead the person who’s more likely to give them their treat straight to the sausages.

But when it came to the person who would not give them their favourite treat, the dogs were more likely to led them to the empty box.

“On both test days, the dogs were more likely to lead the cooperative partner than the competitive one to the box containing the preferred food, and this effect was stronger on the second than on the first test day,” the study found.

Yep, clever lil’ doggos.

This comes after another study found that your puppers love it when you speak to them in your special pupper voice.

You see, some very clever humans conducted an experiment with both some puppers (puppies) and some doggos (adult dogs) and some women (humans).

To conduct their experiment they gave the humans 90 photos of some puppies (30), some adult dogs (30), and some much older woofers (30).

During the experiment they found the puppers were more responsive when they heard people speaking in their special pupper voice or special doggo voice, than if they heard them speaking in their normal adult voice.

They were “reacting more quickly, looking more often at the loudspeaker and approaching it closer for longer periods”.

Where as the older doggos responded pretty much the same way to the special pupper voices and the normal adult voices (i.e. they’re too old for this shit).

Basically, they concluded that humans have a special voice for puppers… and puppers love it.